Hey guys, I currently have two cars, one is my 73 roadrunner that has a factory bottom end 400 engine. It has iron 915 casting heads and .284 .484 purple cam. It goes alright but it is nothing like id like it to be. With that being said I am also building a naturally aspirate 383 lt1 for my 97 z28. I was tossing up the idea of building a stout 400 or 383 big block in the roadrunner and will within the next few years. However due to the naturally low compression of the 400 deck motor I was tossing up the idea of a rear mount turbo. It has the factory forged crank (it is a hipo 400 with a manual behind it) the stock rods and the stock pistons. I know I cannot run too much boost, however I was told by a gentleman at sts turbo that I could safely get away with 5 to 7 lbs of boost as long as I have an electronic boost controller. With that said he said I should see gains of between 100 to 120 rwhp. Like I said I do plan on building another lowdeck motor for this car with around the same compression, with an all forged rotating assembly so I can run more boost. My question is, what type of turbo(s) should I get. I am pretty confident in my fabricating skills to make this work with either a single turbo or twin.
For a twin set up I would eliminate bother of my mufflers and place the turbos where they were. Replace my current 2.5 inch echaust with stainless 3 inch up to the turbos and keep a 3 inch return pipe to my carburetor. Since it is a rear mount with little boost would I need an intercooler? and what size turbos would you recommend for this? Thank you and sorry for the long thread lol